I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.

...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization

Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.

There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

If you never miss a plane, you’re spending too much time at the airport.

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade later she repeated her question and I repeated my answer. "No promotion?" was her comment.

Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.

Sometimes the nicest people are the ones who've been hurt the most

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

The coolest part about seeing a girl wear something comfortable is the smile that you can just feel coming through from inside her.

Earth does not understand her child, Who from the loud gregarious town Returns, depleted and defiled, To the still woods, to fling him down.

We are very much social creatures who model ourselves on one another.

The Way is ever without action, yet nothing is left undone.

Do everything you're told. Be a good cheerleader. And never, never say, 'It's not so bad.' Say 'You are almost there!' And say it a lot.

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

Another important time when I feel most alive is when I hear a song that I love so much that all I can do is dance - I feel so free!

A crisis event often explodes the illusions that anchor our lives.